Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Telegram expired (TIME, Dec. 11), Broun signed a new contract with the New York Post. Then in Connecticut he took to his bed with bronchitis. To the World-Telegram, a few days earlier than usual, he sent his annual Christmas parable about the two old kings and the young wise man. (His great & good friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, once read it at a Christmas ceremony in Washington.) For the Post he wrote but one column...
Tick-timed, effectively voiced, the Dewey speech bettered his flying start. Yet at week's end, after carefully considering everything, wise oldsters of the Republican National Committee definitely ticketed young Mr. Dewey for the No. 2 spot in the 1940 G. O. P. race. General (and damning) opinion was: Tom Dewey has no chance for the Presidency, but will make the best Vice Presidential nominee either party has had since Theodore Roosevelt...
...tramping through museums. To bring good painting to the family circle, many a low-priced art book, crammed with color reproductions, has lately been published in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 23). Another venture in the way of such home museums was put out last week by William H. Wise...
Sure to hit popular taste amidships was World-Famous Paintings, based on questionnaires to 31,000 Wise customers asking for their favorite paintings. For $2.95 the reader got the 100 most popular choices in color, a running-fire commentary by Artist Rockwell Kent. Unprecedentedly huge was the first edition of 300,000 copies. With 220,000 of them sold already, Wise & Co. planned another printing of 250,000 in January...
...used. Says he: "Had the selection of pictures been left to me it would have come to include many that are now in the volume. And with what vindictive fury would it have excluded others!" But even readers who sympathize with him are likely to think that Wise & Co.'s milk was well spilt...